Sustainable Cities
A space in a city which is put aside for plants to exist.
What is a Green Space?
A system of biotic organisms and abiotic components that interact as a system to support life
What is an Ecosystem?
A series of steps that engineers follow to find a solution to a problem
What is the Engineering Design Process?
Energy in the form of heat, also called "Heat Energy"
What is Thermal Energy?
A change of color is a sign of this.
What is money/budget?
What is materials?
What is space?
Biotic organisms that break down waste and dead things to extract nutrients.
What are Decomposers?
A set of requirements that must be met
What are Criteria?
A type of chemical reaction that absorbs thermal energy
What is an Endothermic Reaction?
The law that sates that mass will not change from the beginning to the end of a chemical reaction
What is Law of Conservation of Mass?
The ability to care for well-being for an extended period of time
What is Sustainability?
Problems that ecosystems are facing today, such as pollution, invasive species, and climate change.
What are Ecosystem Threats?
Limitations on the design, such as funds, resources, or time
What are Constraints?
A type of chemical reaction that releases Thermal Energy
What is an Exothermic Reaction?
The smallest unit of a chemical substance that retains its porperties
What is an atom?
An area where many humans live together alongside natural factors?
What is an urban ecosystem?
The process by which producers store energy from the sun as glucose
What is Photosynthesis?
A model created for the purpose of testing and improving a design
What is a prototype?
A material such as plastic or rubber which prevents the loss of heat
What is an insulator?
The place where you have sensory receptors for balance.
What are your ears?
The goal of a Green City.
What is "being sustainable"?
The amount of different species in an ecosystem
What is Biodiversity?
Small updates to a product based on previous changes and testing them again to get closer to the ideal design.
What is Iterative Testing?
A material such as metal which changes temperatures easily
What is a Conductor?
The instant reaction your body has in response to a stimulus that removes you from harm's way.
What is a reflex?